DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGKAPH—miI CRESS ASSOCIATION.] HUNTING ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. AVlii 1c following the hounds at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meet on Saturday afternoon, Ross Pearce, aged 28, sustained serious internal injuries when his mount came down at a gorse and wire fence and rolled on the rider. Pearce was removed to the County Hospital and his condition is reported to be serious. CROSS ( OUNTRY CHAMPIONSITI PS CHRISTCHURCH. July 19. 'The annual Canterbury Cross Country Athletic Championship was won bv E. B. E. Taylor! who did six and n-linlf miles in 42iniu. lOsecs. J. AlcKee was second.

GREAT .MAORI TRIBUTE. WHAKATANK. July 19

A monument to ITurimii Apanui, the last of the big chiefs of the Ngatiawa tribe, who could trace bis descent back to the arrival of the big canoes, was unveiled yesterday at Pohuturoa Rock —a rock of sacred memories to the native people. There was a large crowd of two thousand present, many natives coming from other districts. .Magnificent orations were made by Rmigitiaorero Tc Awekotuku, a chief of the Arawas, and Meru Timuturu. a chief of the Ngatiaus. Six chiefs, each representative of the canoes which brought the .Maoris to New Zealand, hold the ribbons and released the Red Ensign furled around the monument. This is a handsome black granite column. richly decorated in native art and testified to the esteem in which the late chief was held. The .Mayor (Mr IV. Sullivan) arid the County Chairman (Mr W. Kerd) paid tribute to the loyalty and splendid character of Hurinui Apanui. and on bchali of the European population. Complimented the natives on the splendid memorial to this much revered man.

PEA ROE SUCCU MBS. ASHBURTON, .July 19. Ross Pearce, 28, died in the hospital last night as a. resiiß of injuries received while following the Christchurch hounds at Winslow on Saturday. His horse fell at an awkward fence, the animal breaking its neck, and the rider sustaining internal injuries. Pearce was a single man and was a brother <>i Joseph Claude Pearce, who was killed in a motor accident, near Fairtou on March 6th. He was the son of Mr T. A. C. Pearce, of Gore. TWO DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA. ASHBURTON. July 19. There were two deaths from pneumonia and influenza during the week end, one patient in the borough being a woman leaving a husband and six children; the other patient was a girl of 15 from Methven. A STOWAWAY’S ESCAPADE. GISBORNE, July 19.

The Tahiti islander, Harano, who stowed away on, the Lyttelton crane steamer Rapaki, secreted himself in the coal barge tendering the vessel and landed in Gisborne. Within a few hours he was arrested by the police, and charged at the Court this morning with vagrancy and landing in New Zealand without a permit. The Magistrnte sentenced the accused to fourteen days’ imprisonment, directing lie be placed on the vessel again when sue leaves for Lyttelton. chain for damages. CHRISTCHURCH. July 19. At the Supreme Court, the widow of Isaac Welsh, stevedore, who was killed in an accident on the steamer Canadian Chalenger on November 19, claimed £3,929 damages from the Canadian Government Merchant Marine Ltd., alleging that the sling was defective and so broke when hoisting a. cask: also that defendants were guilty of negligence. The defence contended that the work was under the control of the. Shaw Saville Coy. and that Welsh took an undue risk. The case is proceeding. ALLEGED FRAUD. CHRISTCHURCH, July 19 Fraud by means of newspaper advts. ealing for a loan of £7, “and would repay £70,” was alleged against two sisters, Ada May Phyllis Birchell and Ivy Hazel Ada Birchell, in tlia Court to-day,. The police stated they secured £39 in this way, operating in Christchurch and other towns. They pleaded not guilty and were committed for trial ,on charges of having obtained credit by fraud.

AN APPEAL ALLOWED. WELLINGTON, July 19. In the appeal in the ease of Dunn v. Mendel the appeal was allowed with costs b.v agreement, the Court holding that the only interest which Williams had was an equitable right. There remained nothing on which a charge could onernte.

INFANT FATA LITIES. BALCLUTHA, July 19. Tho police advise that Eion Francis Harrison Weyber, G years, son o! Charles Weyber, fell into the Aiolyneux River on Saturday and was drowned. The body has not been recovered. The twin infant daughters of John Hollows, taxi proprietor, Alosgiel, aged -1 \ months, died suddenly yesterday. They were put in a cot together, and found dead three hours later.

SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. BALCLUTHA, July 19

William March, aged 41, of Kaitangata, while motoring to Dunedin yesterday, sustained a broken leg through the car going over a 30 foot bank.

Jame.s Parkhill, aged 23, was liesjoitalled with broken ribs caused while jumping from one track to another m the Caver.slr.uu tunnel.

NOTED COR RES PON D ENT. AUCKLAND. July 19.

Passengers hv tho Aorangi include Major Arnaldo Cipolla special correspondent'of the Italian journal ‘‘La Stampa,” who speaks enthusiastically of Mussolini's rule in Italy. He v ill spend ten days in New Zealand, first visiting the principal resorts of the North Island.

fatal accident. WHANGAHEI. July 19. Walter Davis, married with three children was killed by a fall of gravel in a quarry at Ngawa near Kaikohe.

INDIAN HOCKEY TEAAI. AUCKLAND. July 19

On the eve of the departure of the Indian Hockey team, Captain Cowan expressed thanks to all. throughout the Dominion for the kindness shown to the British officers and Indian and other ranks in the team. He especially appreciated the fairness and spotting encouragement of the New Zealand crowds. The general standard of hockey in New Zealand was below the standard of hockey in India and the British Isles, but lie thought it would improve rapidly and eventually reach a high standard., He attributed the low standard to. the grounds. It was only in large centres where there were good grounds and there Hockey was of a high standard.

INFLUENZA. ' AUCKLAND, July 19. During the week ended noon to-day

twenty-five cases of pneumonic-influ-enza were reported and eight deaths. Since Saturday three cases were report-

RELJEF FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. AUCKLAND, July 19. The Newmarket Borough Council confirmed a special resolution to raise a loan of £3,000 to relieve the unemployment effecting permanent improvement to the Outhwaite Park and to levy a special rate of ijd in the C oil all rateable property. AN INQUEST. INVERCARGILL, July 19. An inquest was held on John Arthur who was electrocuted at Lochiel. while running out a low tension wire which came in contact with a high tension wire. Mr Hutton, assistant engineer, said that the accident could have been avoided ljy cutting off the high tension wire which would mean cutting off some 600 consumers for a day. Instructions have been issued that this must he done in future, no matter wliat inconvenience' is caused. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

COMMUNIST PARTY. CHRISTCHURCH. .July 19. S. Fournier, leader of the Communist Party here and one of the unemployed. was offered work by the Citizens’ Committee on Saturday at Jss 2d a. day, but lie did not turn up though he sent a note saving that he was unable to undertake horticultural and sylvan tasks proposed. Yesterday he addressed a meeting of men demanding work for all the unemployed.